The Boeing Starliner astronauts took their first joint spacewalk
NASA astronauts aboard the ISS successfully completed a joint spacewalk, extending their Starliner mission to perform critical maintenance tasks

This story incorporates reporting from Bill McEwen, Space.com and CNN on MSN.com.
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Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated the reason the astronauts’ time in space has been extended. It is because the Boeing Starliner spacecraft that took them into space was deemed unable to safely return them to Earth, not to conduct maintenance tasks outside the International Space Station.